| Show A Three fear ear Program n Moon La Lake Blue ue Bench Pleasant Valley New Hope Definite Backing Given By All Forces Will Insure These Four Major Pro- Pro je jests ls Just To Complete Reclamation tion Of Old Districts In order for nearly all of the Basin to get together a program large enough to be interesting to every locality and of general interest interest interest in in- terest and necessity is essential Such a program must meet th the critical inspection of f federal engineers engineers engineers en en- as well as be amply meritorious meritorious meritorious mer mer- to justify itself against the rigid policy of national ex ex- But we have four well vell known own projects that will meet these demands demands demands de de- de- de mands they cover a wide area representing nearly all the communities communities communities com com- on the former reservation reserva- reserva tion directly or indirectly First Moon Lal Lake e storage for which farmers under the Dry Gulch system have waited a a longtime longtime long time and which is s surveyed and should soon be commenced Second The Blue Bench partly partly partly part part- ly irrigated and more than half still waiting although there is ample water for It Third Pleasant Valley the part not now covered by Taylor Bros canal an and like Blue Bench was homesteaded a generation ago should have the water provided Fourth The New Hope district extending in a short circular form from a mile or two easterly from the Myton mill mill- down nearly to Roosevelt and then swinging back toward Randlett Here are arc four big deals every everyone everyone everyone I one of which harks back to early days after the reservation was opened for entry in 1905 Each one has been a serious matter in its day homesteaders waited after after after af af- af- af ter they built their homes and andr r they worked on canals made their livings as they could and yet were worn out many leaving and others still having faith and hope got land nearby and yet still have anxiously dreamed of the day when their lands would be provided provided provided pro pro- vided with water These four propositions should be included in a definite program for three years intensive work where in a a. united countryside may show forth the merit and value of the holdings and realize the worthy ambition they represent Such a program will insure labor a larger market and an increase in population If taken up in a systematic manner the effort assures as assures assures as- as us a cooperative spirit which of itself is worth all aU the energy expended Time has passed for any any- other kind of work along this line of improvement except that of a unified unified unified uni uni- fied political force among ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves and this alone will produce produce produce pro pro- duce the economic results Regardless Regardless Regardless Re Re- of party or of our ideas on national and state affairs we may all aU join together in a program program program pro pro- gram such as this because it will help every farm every property owner and give new life and vigor vigor vig vig- or when and where these requisites requisites requisites ites are so truly needed It is high time that every organization organization organization or or- having to do with civic civic civic ic matters either cither directly or otherwise otherwise otherwise oth oth- should unite in such an undertaking This spirit of Let George Do It has gone too far Waiting just patiently trusting will not produce results California went after Boulder dam in a systematic manner starting twenty years ago to prepare prepare prepare pre pre- pare for It Publicity agents experts experts experts ex ex- in many lines were drawn into the battle Government surveys surveys sur sur- J veys were made of the entire Colorado river watershed by several several several sev sev- eral men of high standing This data was collected and California ia got her committees committee into the harness there and at Washington and she was not asleep as to what went on in any anyone one of the state capitals of the other six states Boulder dam has held us back being only one of several big fac fac- tors Now that is attended to toone toone toone one obstacle Is out of the way It is our turn to ask for just a little of the larger development I which we have a right to request We ha have vc a right now to say to those in charge In Utah and in Washington If you wont won't let White river be used or divert Yampa river and if you still keep the Castle Peak project tied up then Uncle Sam give us these lesser areas The land is our All we want is water for it and even that we have partly secured I needing storage for the late irrigation irrigation irrigation I gation and the dry years Fellow citizen it is time to talk talle about this to urge it to demand it You wont won't get it any other way |
